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more deadly violence in syria as the u.s. shuts down its embassy and withdrawals its staff. >>> a stroller rolls onto train tracks. good morning. i'm lynn berry. thes stories and more straight ahead. this is first look on msnbc. >>> we begin with a santorum surge. despite back to back wins in florida and nevada, new poll numbers have gop frontrunner mitt romney suddenly taking rival rick is an or rum seriously. ahead of primaries and caucuses today in minnesota, missouri. brian mooar is in washington with all of this. >> reporter: rick santorum hoping to change the dynamics of this race in a single day and emerge as the conservative alternative. if this isn't judgment day for the santorum campaign it is close. he is running out of time and money. he is hoping for a strong showing, a breakout in minnesota and in missouri where there are no actual delegates at stake today, he is going head-to-head with mitt romney and wants voters to know he can be a viable candidate. newt gingrich did not make the ballot in missouri. ron paul
more deadly violence in syria as the u.s. shuts down its embassy and withdrawals its staff. >>> a stroller rolls onto train tracks. good morning. i'm lynn berry. thes stories and more straight ahead. this is first look on msnbc. >>> we begin with a santorum surge. despite back to back wins in florida and nevada, new poll numbers have gop frontrunner mitt romney suddenly taking rival rick is an or rum seriously. ahead of primaries and caucuses today in minnesota, missouri....
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general assembly is backing a plan for syria's president to step down. and also conducts the human rights abuses. >>> and hezbollah leader says the terror group was not behind recent attacks in thailand and india. they said the plots were too small to be the works of his organization. let's get you back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." and the big showdown in michigan. rick santorum may have momentum on his side but mitt romney has the cash and his cash-infused superpac restore our sfurt hoping to eliminate santorum and the threat from him and his ads like this. take a look at these ads in michigan meant to destroy santorum. >> in a single session, santorum co-sponsored 51 bills to increase spending and zero to cut spending. santorum even voted to raise his own pay and joined hillary clinton to let convicted felons vote. rick santorum. big spender, washington insider. >> but today santorum got much-needed help. his own campaign and his aligned superpac announced they are pouring in cash to run ads to rebut the romney onslaught. will this ea
general assembly is backing a plan for syria's president to step down. and also conducts the human rights abuses. >>> and hezbollah leader says the terror group was not behind recent attacks in thailand and india. they said the plots were too small to be the works of his organization. let's get you back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." and the big showdown in michigan. rick santorum may have momentum on his side but mitt romney has the cash...
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and that certainly is consistent with syria. but second, there was broad international support that was manifested with the u.n. resolution. and now we have the active opposition, unfortunately, of china and russia. and then third, we were able to be intervene in a very limited mission, no boots on the ground. the syrian army is big, powerful. it's well armed. so the calculation in the military that might be required is obviously much different decision than libya. >> but sir, you know there are a number of people who say the big difference between libya and syria is oil. >> well, people say that, but i actually think that there's just horror at what is happening to syrian citizens. and i think it motivates everybody here and the european union and some of the arab league is trying to put an end to this horrendous situation of a government unleashing cannons and machine guns on innocent women, children and men. so it's a humanitarian issue is what i think is pushing this. but we don't have the international support and right now
and that certainly is consistent with syria. but second, there was broad international support that was manifested with the u.n. resolution. and now we have the active opposition, unfortunately, of china and russia. and then third, we were able to be intervene in a very limited mission, no boots on the ground. the syrian army is big, powerful. it's well armed. so the calculation in the military that might be required is obviously much different decision than libya. >> but sir, you know...
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hillary clinton said monday that the current situation in syria is, quote, unsustainable. >>> now here's your first look at some of the other news going on around america today. >>> last night, a wild high-speed chase in los angeles at speeds up 90 miles per hour before detouring to city streets causing numerous close calls there. two people inside the car finally jumped out and took off running, but were later captured. >>> near buffalo, a battle between rival pizza joints turned violent. surveillance video shows a man using his jeep to plow right into a sign on a sidewalk promoting one of the pizza places. it's after the driver allegedly warned the owner to take the sign down because it was offering a similar type of pie. the suspect's family recently sold the competing pizzeria. he is facing criminal charges. >>> 27-year-old heath frisbee was able to successfully do a front flip on his snowmobile. it's never been done before and it earned him a medal for best snowmobile trick. >>> if you're still looking for real winter conditions, look no further than fairbanks, alaska. it was 49 deg
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iran has a major stake in syria. that's their top arab ally. >> so do a little try angulation. >> part of the problem is that nato overstepped the bounds of the mandate protecting the libyan citizens. and that basically scared off russia and china from signing on to something like that again. that was the downside. >> when the french came out and said, listen. we need oil, so the french were like -- >> the idea that we're playing with go politics and talking about people being hypocrite call is naive. no one functions on the broader morality. >> that's going to change as shared information goes on. >> the russians and chinese allowed for the protection, but nato overstepped the mandate. now they won't go down that path again. that's it the blowback from that decision. so regardless of what the outcome was. >> let's assume we have this entrance jens. when you have a situation like this, we have had the benefit of being able to rely on mubarak in egypt when cairo was the middle east. you could go to mubarak and say, we
iran has a major stake in syria. that's their top arab ally. >> so do a little try angulation. >> part of the problem is that nato overstepped the bounds of the mandate protecting the libyan citizens. and that basically scared off russia and china from signing on to something like that again. that was the downside. >> when the french came out and said, listen. we need oil, so the french were like -- >> the idea that we're playing with go politics and talking about people...
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what is maybe happening in syria is one of those things that crosses the line. you can tell by the president and the american secretary of state talked about it today and threatened that the u.s. is going to act in response. i do not know exactly what that means and neither do you, but we're probably not talking about a sternly-worded letter. we're talking about the nerve agents. we're talking about mustard gas. do you remember the doomsday cult back in the mid-'90s that killed 13 people and seriously injured 50 people and temporarily blinded a thousand people? imagine that but with weapons grade disseminated by missile. associated press says that syria is believed to have several hundred ballistic surface to surface missiles capable of carrying chemical war heads plus several tons of weapons stored in large drums or in artillery shells. the cause for all the concern right now including the statements from president obama and secretary clinton is the reports from this weekend. reports from this weekend quoting intelligence sources saying there was "heightened ac
what is maybe happening in syria is one of those things that crosses the line. you can tell by the president and the american secretary of state talked about it today and threatened that the u.s. is going to act in response. i do not know exactly what that means and neither do you, but we're probably not talking about a sternly-worded letter. we're talking about the nerve agents. we're talking about mustard gas. do you remember the doomsday cult back in the mid-'90s that killed 13 people and...
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and the latest on the showdown in syria and defense secretary leon panetta's warning for president assad with former ambassador nick burns. ma announcer ] jill and her mouth have lived a great life. but she has some dental issues she's not happy about. so i introduced jill to crest pro-health for life. selected for people over 50. pro-health for life is a toothpaste that defends against tender, inflamed gums, sensitivity and weak enamel. conditions people over 50 experience. crest pro-health for life. so jill can keep living the good life. crest. life opens up when you do. [ tylenol bottle ] me too! and nasal congestion. [ tissue box ] he said nasal congestion. yeah...i heard him. [ female announcer ] tylenol® cold multi-symptom nighttime relieves nasal congestion. nyquil® cold and flu doesn't. [ "the odd couple" theme playing ] humans. even when we cross our "t"s and dot our "i"s, we still run into problems -- mainly other humans. at liberty mutual insurance, we understand. that's why our auto policies come with accident forgiveness if you qualify, where your rates won't go up due to
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as we were talking earlier, syria is not just about syria. syria is related to china and russia. china, we also need in dealing with iran. iran is connected to israel. it's like connected. that's the problem when you hear the saber rattling. let's take syria. some are saying we should be arming the rebels. okay. who are they? syria is not the same as libya. syria has a well-armed army of its own very organized. >> thanks to the russians. it depends on which country we want to arm. >> the point being, you have to view in a global economy and in this kand of environment, you have to see these as moving parts that are connected. >> so where is the leverage now? what we're looking for is to identify the narrowist part, the smallest group of people on this whole chess board that could exert influence on syria and iran to diminish the level of heat. who is that? >> they are not such a small group. it's the largest country in the world. china. that's what we need. >> explain that a bit. why is china so relevant to what happens with iran and syria? >> china is so relevant because they ar
as we were talking earlier, syria is not just about syria. syria is related to china and russia. china, we also need in dealing with iran. iran is connected to israel. it's like connected. that's the problem when you hear the saber rattling. let's take syria. some are saying we should be arming the rebels. okay. who are they? syria is not the same as libya. syria has a well-armed army of its own very organized. >> thanks to the russians. it depends on which country we want to arm....
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meanwhile, more than 100 were killed in syria today, including 14 children. so far, only 27 wounded have been evacuated from the hardest hit areas. >>> in afghanistan, protests over the bunk korans at a u.s. air base led to the deaths of seven people. 20 people have died over the last few days, including two u.s. soldiers. >>> back to "hardball." >> how do you feel? how do you feel, bob marshall? how do you feel? shame! shame! shame on you. shame! shame! shame! shame! >> that captures the scene. welcome back to "hardball." that's the virginia delegate right there trying to talk there who sponsored a personhood bill being shouted down at the state capitol in richmond. the bill defines a fertalized human egg as a person was tabled, put aside, until next year. in a big win for virginia democrats and a big rebuke to virginia republicans. sex and politics are colliding now in three big states right now. run by three high-profile governors in a way that could tilt the national political balance. in virginia, it's abortion politics with a republican legislature over
meanwhile, more than 100 were killed in syria today, including 14 children. so far, only 27 wounded have been evacuated from the hardest hit areas. >>> in afghanistan, protests over the bunk korans at a u.s. air base led to the deaths of seven people. 20 people have died over the last few days, including two u.s. soldiers. >>> back to "hardball." >> how do you feel? how do you feel, bob marshall? how do you feel? shame! shame! shame on you. shame! shame! shame!...
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almost 40,000 people have died in syria already. but the use of chemical weapons and poison gas, i think the fa val valueties would be very much greater. it does kind of cross a line. these aren't judgments that you can make in any particularly scientific way. but i think what your administration, part of the international community is signaling to the president is if you cross that line, it will be a sharp and strong reaction. >> and those were tough words coming from president obama yesterday from secretary hillary clinton from the nato secretary general today in brussels. is that enough to prevent using poison gas or chemical warfare? or just threats, shall we say? is there something else tangibly the international community should be doing? >> well, it's important that i'm sure this is being conveyed in many different ways, too. it's important that he understands that that response is going to be emphatic. so it won't be, in other words, that we issue a strong statement. that ll be some action that will follow. look, i think he
almost 40,000 people have died in syria already. but the use of chemical weapons and poison gas, i think the fa val valueties would be very much greater. it does kind of cross a line. these aren't judgments that you can make in any particularly scientific way. but i think what your administration, part of the international community is signaling to the president is if you cross that line, it will be a sharp and strong reaction. >> and those were tough words coming from president obama...
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syria where today was the islamic sabbath. >> reporter: across syria, friday is a day for prayer and protest. as they emerge from the mosque, the faithful called out for god to help them win their freedom. young boys led the chant. "we need a god-fearing president" this one cried. from their neighborhoods. they marged together into the main square, part of an areas that locals called the free zone where government forces have been pushed out. after days of fighting and mourning, today offered a rare moment of joy. the rebels have managed to carve out this small enclave so that the people of this city can come out here without fear and celebrate what this uprising is really all about-- freedom. >> we need freedom! we need freedom! >> reporter: they burned photographs of the leaders of russia and china-- supporters of assad's regime throughout its brutal crackdown. and they pledged their support to the people of the city of homs. "with our soul and our blood we will avenge homs" they swore. she's saying that all of the people of syria are together as one. as word spread that american j
syria where today was the islamic sabbath. >> reporter: across syria, friday is a day for prayer and protest. as they emerge from the mosque, the faithful called out for god to help them win their freedom. young boys led the chant. "we need a god-fearing president" this one cried. from their neighborhoods. they marged together into the main square, part of an areas that locals called the free zone where government forces have been pushed out. after days of fighting and mourning,...
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syria can collapse, libya can collapse. iran may go through regime change, but they'll always be a strong persian state. >> what does that tell you about u.s. policy toward iran? >> what it tells me is that our grand strategy has to be how do we engage in a dialogue with iran. what is the path toward that. is it fighting a war with them over nuclear weapons? is it not fighting a war with them? but the endgame is a dialogue with what is probably the most significant state in the middle east where we have a lot of interests to discuss. >> so the middle east you're describing is really one where the states that are real and enduring, iran, egypt. >> tunisia. >> turkey to a certain extent. >> absolutely, turkey,y. >> those are the six -- >> because they're age-old clusters of civilization with natural borders. countries like algeria, syria, libya, jordan, were never really thought of until states until the 20 ts century. >> someone once described them as tribes with flags. >> yes. yemen is a mixed bag. even the turks and the br
syria can collapse, libya can collapse. iran may go through regime change, but they'll always be a strong persian state. >> what does that tell you about u.s. policy toward iran? >> what it tells me is that our grand strategy has to be how do we engage in a dialogue with iran. what is the path toward that. is it fighting a war with them over nuclear weapons? is it not fighting a war with them? but the endgame is a dialogue with what is probably the most significant state in the...
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>> well, it's an extremely serious situation in syria. one of the reasons it's so serious is that syria has felt, the government, has felt buttressed by the failure of the security council to act so it is using even more brutal methods now to kill large numbers of its citizens. so russia really -- russia and china -- really helped the regime here. and what you hear in susan rice's voice is also a kind of not only frustration but in the face of this russian veto. >> and no military involvement here, michael. so what's the alternative? and maybe the question people are asking, what's the difference between what's happening here and now and what happened with gadhafi in libya? >> well, people do ask that question, chris. the fact is the administration doesn't really have very many good options. you remember they were reluctant to intervene in libya, which was in many ways a simpler situation. it was a clear opposition that was taking territory to bat. here it looks like a messier situation. and the administration worries even about arming th
>> well, it's an extremely serious situation in syria. one of the reasons it's so serious is that syria has felt, the government, has felt buttressed by the failure of the security council to act so it is using even more brutal methods now to kill large numbers of its citizens. so russia really -- russia and china -- really helped the regime here. and what you hear in susan rice's voice is also a kind of not only frustration but in the face of this russian veto. >> and no military...
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folks, this is life in syria right now. and this is just in to us here at cnn, and you have to watch closely. this video was shot sunday in the capital city of damascus. it appears the bolster planes, they're using civilians as human shields. these men are apparently being forced at gunpoint -- look at them on both sides -- to line up behind this tank. watch what happens. they're forced to kneel and then slowly they go from kneeling to ultimately laying on the ground, and it's hard to tell because i'm not sure what is happening here, but we can semen carrying arms and one can surmise those are the guys calling the shots. laying down behind a tank, not something one would expect a person to do voluntarily. and as we told you, the syrian government in damascus has refused entrance to cnn crews who are trying to cover this story for the world. however, cnn's arwa damon has managed to get inside syria, and for her safety we can't tell you her precise location but we can tell you what she's seeing and hearing. >> reporter: in th
folks, this is life in syria right now. and this is just in to us here at cnn, and you have to watch closely. this video was shot sunday in the capital city of damascus. it appears the bolster planes, they're using civilians as human shields. these men are apparently being forced at gunpoint -- look at them on both sides -- to line up behind this tank. watch what happens. they're forced to kneel and then slowly they go from kneeling to ultimately laying on the ground, and it's hard to tell...
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three days of talks with governments on how to end bloodshed in syria. more than 40,000 have died, including children, as owe now. and wednesday, the pope is tweeting, go on twitter to catch his first tweet from his personal account. the hope has managed to get nearly 600,000 followers in the last week. and on friday, person of the year, "time" is naming them. last year it was the protester that was picked. "time" is a sister company of cnn, and on saturday, egyptians vote. catch it live here on cnn. there you have it, a busy week ahead. it seems like whatever she does cases a stir, and now a tweet is causing a social media frenzy. take a look at your gas prices. the price fell a penny. tonight our guest, thomas sargent. nobel laureate in economics, and one of the most cited economists in the world. professor sargent, can you tell me what cd rates will be in two years? no. if he can't, no one can. that's why ally has a raise your rate cd. ally bank. your money needs an ally. [ tylenol bottle ] me too! and nasal co [ tissue box ] he said nasal congestion.
three days of talks with governments on how to end bloodshed in syria. more than 40,000 have died, including children, as owe now. and wednesday, the pope is tweeting, go on twitter to catch his first tweet from his personal account. the hope has managed to get nearly 600,000 followers in the last week. and on friday, person of the year, "time" is naming them. last year it was the protester that was picked. "time" is a sister company of cnn, and on saturday, egyptians vote....
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>> pelley: tonight, syria's dictat dictator shows no mercy. his latest assault kills scores of people, including an american reporter. >> the top floor of the building i'm in has been hit. >> reporter: norah o'donnell and clarissa ward report. from abortion to birth control, social issues move to the forefront in the g.o.p. presidential campaign. dean reynolds and jan crawford on where the front-runners stand. dr. jon lapook reports f.d.a. medical experts are recommending approval of the diet pill qnexa despite risky side effects. and chip reid on a new national museum that will tell the story of a long struggle for freedom. >> they weren't mine. they belonged to the world. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. "shameless brutality." those are the words the united states chose today to describe bashar al-assad's allout military assault on syria's freedom movement. the 40-year dictatorship of the assad family seems bent on crushing the citizens' rebellion that began nearly a year
>> pelley: tonight, syria's dictat dictator shows no mercy. his latest assault kills scores of people, including an american reporter. >> the top floor of the building i'm in has been hit. >> reporter: norah o'donnell and clarissa ward report. from abortion to birth control, social issues move to the forefront in the g.o.p. presidential campaign. dean reynolds and jan crawford on where the front-runners stand. dr. jon lapook reports f.d.a. medical experts are recommending...
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neighboring turkey has sealed its boarder to trade with syria. and there are more signs of cracking in president assad's regime as two more syrian ambassadors have defected. >>> we are monitoring the situation from cairo. eamonn, what can you tell us this morning? >> reporter: without a doubt, the opposition activist we've been speaking to on the ground in the reports coming out suggest that the syrian military now is consolidating its forces around those two major cities. as you mentioned, damascus is the capital, the political seat of power for the rejeep. but aleppo is the largest commercial city, so it is vitally as important for them to hold on to it. what seems to have happened over the past several days is the rebelsave been emboldened. they have flooded these cities with large numbers, images being put online have suggested that the rebels have taken key parts of these cities, but the syrian military is fighting back. they've moved some of those forces away from the outlying provinces into those cities and many people are afraid that the
neighboring turkey has sealed its boarder to trade with syria. and there are more signs of cracking in president assad's regime as two more syrian ambassadors have defected. >>> we are monitoring the situation from cairo. eamonn, what can you tell us this morning? >> reporter: without a doubt, the opposition activist we've been speaking to on the ground in the reports coming out suggest that the syrian military now is consolidating its forces around those two major cities. as you...
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you know, in syria, you know you have the regime of mr. assaad. he's brutal. he's cracking down on his. >>> how go you go that without logistics. these are all the sober, cautionary questions that have to be asked before we use a military option. >> there are reports that the allies have been talking about delivering humanitarian aid and you mentioned the devastating humanitarian crisis, doctors without borders saying that this is a regime that's been withholding medicine what kind of progress has been made in terms of the people getting aid. including aides workers who have been injured in pretty significant numbers. >> the hardest for any of us on the outside watching we know that people are suffering as a result of the brutal repression of that regime. you can't fix every problem'dly. -- we should continue to be involved, as secretary clinton is in diplomatic -- in china who if they got their act together and stood up for human rights could actually be somewhat influential in the syrian regime. we should continue working in the u.n., and we should continue
you know, in syria, you know you have the regime of mr. assaad. he's brutal. he's cracking down on his. >>> how go you go that without logistics. these are all the sober, cautionary questions that have to be asked before we use a military option. >> there are reports that the allies have been talking about delivering humanitarian aid and you mentioned the devastating humanitarian crisis, doctors without borders saying that this is a regime that's been withholding medicine what...
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opposition groups say that the latest death toll in syria is at least 13 killed on monday including five people shot. five others were soldiers trying to defect. meanwhile, a u.n. spokesman says the arab league has asked for help. and pakistan supreme court has ordered the prime minister to appear at a contempt hearing on thursday. the judges want to know why he hasn't pursued corruption charngs. those are the headlines from cnn, the world's news later. world business today starts now. >> hello, welcome to "world business today." >> and i'm andrew stevens. thanks for joining us. science in a slow down, but china's enveeble growth continues sparking a rally on the markets. >> and the captain of a wrecked cruise ship will today face judge of possible criminal charges, including mans laugter. >> plus, cnn uncovers widespread child slavery on cocoa farms in ivory coast. well, markets in asia are rallying after chinese economic data exceeded forecast today. the country's economic growth is slower than it's been for the past two and a half years. despite stagnation in many western economies. i
opposition groups say that the latest death toll in syria is at least 13 killed on monday including five people shot. five others were soldiers trying to defect. meanwhile, a u.n. spokesman says the arab league has asked for help. and pakistan supreme court has ordered the prime minister to appear at a contempt hearing on thursday. the judges want to know why he hasn't pursued corruption charngs. those are the headlines from cnn, the world's news later. world business today starts now. >>...
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when you look at a situation like syria, you have to do business with china, because china and russia have blocked intervention with respect to syria and when you think about t environment, chain a has to be a part of the solution. there's a balance of being forceful with china when you need to but normally as most leaders have come to discovery, while you have, you know, direct conversations publically you do a lot more effectively with china quietly than confronting them publically. >> on that note, pj, when we look at the syria question and certainly china and russia's record is joint vetoes, whether it's obstruction on sudan or burma, i was surprised they came out on syria this way they did. do you think this is beginning to make a difference as the chinese look to their foreign policy? >> kmien a was was happy to have russia -- china was happy to have russia as the leading horse on this issue. one of the pill ars as they rise in the world, they do not want to set a precedent that the international community gets to set and then enforce outside conditions or norms on them. you kno
when you look at a situation like syria, you have to do business with china, because china and russia have blocked intervention with respect to syria and when you think about t environment, chain a has to be a part of the solution. there's a balance of being forceful with china when you need to but normally as most leaders have come to discovery, while you have, you know, direct conversations publically you do a lot more effectively with china quietly than confronting them publically. >>...
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military is updating its options daily for a potential strike against syria. this in response to intelligence that shows the assad regime has filled bombs with deadly chemical weapons. syria has one of the most sophisticated stockpiles of chemical weapons in the region, including mustard gas, sarin and intelligence agents think vx nerve agent. president obama has said the movement or use of chemical weapons by syria could lead to u.s. intervention. "outfront" tonight, national security contributor fran townsend who is on the cia and homeland security external advisory board and noah shachtman. noah, what do we think is going on right now? at what point are they in this process? >> so the assad regime has hundreds of metric tons of the building blocks of sarin. basically two big building blocks. there's isopropanol which is rubbing alcohol and phosphorous compounds. those are kept separately in order to keep things safe. but the assad regime in small, limited quantities appears to have combined those two chemicals to make deadly sarin nerve agent and has loaded
military is updating its options daily for a potential strike against syria. this in response to intelligence that shows the assad regime has filled bombs with deadly chemical weapons. syria has one of the most sophisticated stockpiles of chemical weapons in the region, including mustard gas, sarin and intelligence agents think vx nerve agent. president obama has said the movement or use of chemical weapons by syria could lead to u.s. intervention. "outfront" tonight, national...
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witnesses in syria say it is a massacre. in this town near damascus, several people were killed today during a public funeral processi procession. yesterday at least 260 people reportedly died when syrian troops shelled the city. an opposition group says the shelling started when some syrian soldiers defected and fled to homes. president obama today blasting the syrian government for in his words relentless brutality against its own people and he repeated his demands for syria's president to step down. >> and this is one of those political days worth watching. in this country right now across nevada, gop voters are meeting in caucuses and before this day is over, nevada will decide which republican they want to run against president obama. for now, here's what the latest poll tells us to expect. the two top seeds, the gop caucus goers favor mitt romney by 45%. newt gingrich lags behind a full 25 points with only 5% support. let's bring in our political editor, he is in las vegas. so, paul, what's happening inside the caucuse
witnesses in syria say it is a massacre. in this town near damascus, several people were killed today during a public funeral processi procession. yesterday at least 260 people reportedly died when syrian troops shelled the city. an opposition group says the shelling started when some syrian soldiers defected and fled to homes. president obama today blasting the syrian government for in his words relentless brutality against its own people and he repeated his demands for syria's president to...
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has had a very long complicated relationship with syria. i mean, i remember spending time with a canadian citizen who the u.s. rendered through extraordinary rendition. kidnapped at jfk airport and sent him to be tortured in syria. cia working together with syrian intelligence and held him for a year. ultimately released to canada and awarded $10 million there. outraged throughout canada and the united states. still on no-fly list here. it is interesting that the u.s., though, outwardly extremely critical actually does have tie was syria that are very strong. especially around -- they know how terroristic they are because they use them for that. >> they are, i mean, iran backs syrian government. i'm not denying the case you talked about. but essentially we have been having -- this administration has had very bad relation was the syrian government. all of the way you a long. >> working with them at the same time. >> we are not working with them. >> debate over counterterrorism with syria. if i may, the neo-conservative side was against it an
has had a very long complicated relationship with syria. i mean, i remember spending time with a canadian citizen who the u.s. rendered through extraordinary rendition. kidnapped at jfk airport and sent him to be tortured in syria. cia working together with syrian intelligence and held him for a year. ultimately released to canada and awarded $10 million there. outraged throughout canada and the united states. still on no-fly list here. it is interesting that the u.s., though, outwardly...
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apparently he was carried out of syria today, bodily carried out of is syria and into turkey by "new york times" photographer, tyler hicks, who was reporting with him in syria. other details and the exact location of his passing are not yet
apparently he was carried out of syria today, bodily carried out of is syria and into turkey by "new york times" photographer, tyler hicks, who was reporting with him in syria. other details and the exact location of his passing are not yet
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>> they are important in trying to prop up syria. always has been. the only arab ally. >> losing this would isolate the way they have. >> you have the spring playing out in a way that changes the dynamics across the board. they are nervous that the idea of people power that they witnessed for years after their own presidential election are a threat to them. it's not only losing syria, but the idea of people power. >> it's clear assad is killing hundreds a day. is there any way they get involved? >> i don't think militarily. the reliance is going to be on the regional players whether turkey or saudi arabia to take the lead. >> militarily? or just to fun you will arms? >> to create corridors along the border with turkey. i don't think anybody is talking about military action, but this is becoming increasingly unacceptable and beginning to use words like genocide. paf of what is the difference between what they are doing and what they did in libya? >> nothing. >> there far more killed in syria than were killed by gadhafi. the international community sto
>> they are important in trying to prop up syria. always has been. the only arab ally. >> losing this would isolate the way they have. >> you have the spring playing out in a way that changes the dynamics across the board. they are nervous that the idea of people power that they witnessed for years after their own presidential election are a threat to them. it's not only losing syria, but the idea of people power. >> it's clear assad is killing hundreds a day. is there...
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. >>> the already dire situation in syria may be taking on an even more disturbing turn. there's word that president bashar al assad may be thinking about using chemical weapons and more specifically nerve gas against his own people. an nbc report shows video it says depicts the syrian military loaning components for air gas into aerial bombs. those could be bombs that might be dropped from warplanes onto the innocent syrian people below but they say they would never do that to their own people though we have been seeing what they have been doing to their own people for the last year and a half now. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton is leading a new u.s. diplomatic push on syria holding talks in dublin, ireland, today. let me begin with you. including this distressing nbc news report, what and how much do we know about al assad's movements at this point? >> reporter: there have been concerns for months. the u.s. reiterated for quite some time if assad did anything with those chemical weapons and utilize them in any way, theat would be a red line that brought on conse
. >>> the already dire situation in syria may be taking on an even more disturbing turn. there's word that president bashar al assad may be thinking about using chemical weapons and more specifically nerve gas against his own people. an nbc report shows video it says depicts the syrian military loaning components for air gas into aerial bombs. those could be bombs that might be dropped from warplanes onto the innocent syrian people below but they say they would never do that to their...
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how good is the intelligence on what syria really has? >> it is pretty good, but it's not fool-proof. as fran mentioned there are some elements of intelligence that are guesswork, conjecture, educated guesswork to be sure, but still, they're conjecture. it's not like a court of law where you say this is the evidence, this is irrefutable proof. on the other hand there are certain things that the intelligence community can do. for example, they can assess how stockpiles were accumulated in a particular country. you mentioned that the russians had supplied some chemical agents to the syrians and that's absolutely true. you can assess how each area supplies the syrians. you know what they've done, how they've done it and how often they do it. also you can have some intelligence sometimes from human sources that specifically outlines exactly, you know, how good the chemical weapons are, whether they'll be used, whether there's good training for it, what kind of training these people have and all of that is weighed in when they make their asses
how good is the intelligence on what syria really has? >> it is pretty good, but it's not fool-proof. as fran mentioned there are some elements of intelligence that are guesswork, conjecture, educated guesswork to be sure, but still, they're conjecture. it's not like a court of law where you say this is the evidence, this is irrefutable proof. on the other hand there are certain things that the intelligence community can do. for example, they can assess how stockpiles were accumulated in...
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. >>> the obama administration is calling syria's president bashar al assad a coward for remaining in hiding while telling his military to step up the fight against rebels. assad's call appeared in his army's official magazine. meanwhile, the united nations reports a significant escalation in syria's civil war with the military using war planes to fire on opposition fighters in the battle for the country's largest city, aleppo. back at home, the nation's staggering drought crisis is spreading. on wednesday, more than 200 counties were added to a list of disaster areas covering massive parts of the u.s. and the fallout from weeks of hot, dry weather is going well beyond the farm fields, as nbc's ann thompson reports, it could bring one disaster on top of another. >> reporter: this is america, land of the dry. reservoirs evaporating, rivers barely moving. farmland cracked and poarched b a persistent drought. the u.s. department of agriculture reports almost half of the nation's counties have been declared disasters because of the drought. much of the west, midwest and southeast bathed i
. >>> the obama administration is calling syria's president bashar al assad a coward for remaining in hiding while telling his military to step up the fight against rebels. assad's call appeared in his army's official magazine. meanwhile, the united nations reports a significant escalation in syria's civil war with the military using war planes to fire on opposition fighters in the battle for the country's largest city, aleppo. back at home, the nation's staggering drought crisis is...